Latest revision as of 01:31, 4 March 2014

Contents

Introduction

The Essex Swift Administrator's Guide provides instructions for managing an OpenStack Swift environment. The guide is meant to compliment the existing OpenStack Swift Administrator’s Guide by including details of the Cisco OpenStack reference architecture.

Dependencies

The Admin Guide is based on the following software versions:

Ubuntu: 12.04

Puppet: 2.7.11

swift-proxy: 1.4.8+stable+17-0~precise1

swift-account: 1.4.8+stable+17-0~precise1

swift-container: 1.4.8+stable+17-0~precise1

swift-object: 1.4.8+stable+17-0~precise1

Remove a Failed Hard Drive

This process is used for removing a failed hard drive from a Swift Storage Node.

Comment-out or remove definitions for the bad hard drive from the container, object, account rings of the swift-nodes manifest. Here is an example of commenting-out device sdb from a Swift Storage Node named swift01: